Hummingbirds of the Turks and Caicos Islands

2 of the world's 363 hummingbird species live in or visit the Turks and Caicos Islands.

See the Turks and Caicos Islands in the explorer

Which hummingbirds

How many species of each group live in the Turks and Caicos Islands, out of all the species in that group. Bar length shows the group’s size worldwide.

• Florisuginae topazes0 of 4
• Phaethornithinae hermits0 of 37
• Polytminae mangoes0 of 30
• Lesbiini coquettes0 of 67
• Heliantheini brilliants0 of 57
• Patagoninae Patagona0 of 1
• Lampornithini mountain gems0 of 17
• Mellisugini bees2 of 37
• Trochilini emeralds0 of 113

The biggest group here is the bees, with 2 species.

Compared with other countries

• Colombia166
• Ecuador133
• Peru130
• Venezuela104
• Brazil84
• Bolivia77
• Mexico59
• Panama59
• Costa Rica52
• Turks and Caicos Islands2

The Turks and Caicos Islands is 47th of the 55 countries and territories with hummingbirds, tied with 4 others. See them all.

Red List status

• Near threatened 1
• Least concern 1

0 species here are threatened and 1 is near threatened.

• Rufous HummingbirdNear threatened

Sizes

From the Bahama Woodstar, 2.4 g, to the Rufous Hummingbird, 3.5 g. The scale covers the whole family, from 1.9 to 20.2 g.

Visitors · 1

These species don’t breed in the Turks and Caicos Islands; they come for the winter, pass through on migration, or turn up rarely.

• Rufous Hummingbird rare visitor

All 2 species

Sources

Countries and how each species uses them: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. The count includes every species on the country’s list, as the explorer’s map does. Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Red List status: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.